Suckers
Is someone feeling stupid?
While Hezbollah would need to keep the weapons it possesses south of the Litani River hidden, an agreement for areas north of the river would be “left to a long term solution,” the paper reported.
If the proposed compromise is accepted Tuesday by the Lebanese government, it would violate the terms of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 ending the war in Lebanon. The resolution rules that the Lebanese army and UNIFIL may be the only armed forces in the territory between the Litani River south to the Israeli border.
This compromise is also a violation of the “one weapon” principle that appears in Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora’s Seven Points Plan.
This is what Israel got out of depleting its last stocks of sympathy in the civilized world? Suckers.
Hell is going to host the Winter Olympics before Hizbollah surrenders its weapons. Anyone demanding otherwise will be told what King Leonidas of the Spartans told the Persians at Thermopylae: “Come and get them.”
And if any external force — be it the Lebanese “army,” a beefed-up UNIFIL operation, or any combination thereof — is suicidal enough to attempt this on Israel’s behalf in a hardcore Shia region which Israel has just turned to dust for the second time, then Hell is going to host it, too.
As is painfully obvious to anyone who hasn’t swapped his brain for a FOX News antenna, this war was absurd even on its own terms. It started out as a quest to reclaim two prisoners of war, but the chosen means (strategic bombing of Beirut and South Lebanon) led Hizbollah to deploy its strategic deterrent. Then, by mission creep, the Israeli objective morphed into the supposedly “existential” one of removing the said deterrent while it was already being put to use in response to the Israeli campaign! How can a mere threat be intolerable whereas its actual realization, to the tune of 3,790 missiles, is just the cost of doing business?
Moreover, if the threat truly was “existential” — i.e. both intended to and capable of annihilating Israel — then how come only 41 Israeli civilians have been killed? That’s annihilation in the slow lane for you.
Yet these are still significant losses. When it now turns out that they were the price for weakening Israel’s mid-term and long-term security, one must conclude that the Israelis have played themselves for fools.
I’m sure those two captured soldiers, wherever they are, concur.
